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I've had my CRS for close to a month now (bought about 20 juvies and adults on 30th June) and they seem to be really happy and healthy in their tank with the painted fire reds. So far the PFRs have been berrying and breeding like crazy but I've yet to see any berriedCRS😕

Tank Parameters:

Size: 14 Gallon Long

Ammonia , Nitrite 0ppm

Nitrate 20ppm

pH 6.3

dKH 2

dGH 7

TDS 170

Temp 23-25c

Diet: Bacter AE (1 scoop once a week-mainly for the PFR babies), Bornoewild Frenzy (once a week), Indian Almond leaves and aldercones for when they get the late night hunger pangs 😄

So my question would be, do my CRS require some additional protein in their diet? I've been told breeding is quite a energy intensive activity for shrimp. And if so, would feeding some frozen blood-worms help to supplement this?

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Hi everyone,
I have been having a slow die off of my CRS over the last few of months. I am fairly new to this so I am not sure how to deal with this.
Tank: 28L
Substrate: Fluval shrimp stratum (buffered to ~6.5)
Current GH: 5
KH: 0
Temperature: 22 C
Ammonia, nitrates, nitrites: ~0 ppm
Bit of background:
I started with 12 juvenile shrimp that I bought off a breeder in February this year. I started off using tap water (treated) with no problems. I got my first two berried females at the beginning of May. To this point I had had no deaths. At the beginning of June I had a couple (2) of deaths that I am still not sure the cause of. GH was low (2) at this time as I hadn't been testing for it, so that may have been the cause. Following those deaths I got some shrimp specific gh booster (saltyshrimp mineral GH+) and things seemed to recover. Berried females' eggs hatched at the beginning of June. One female became berried again in July.
Now the tank was a bit overgrown at this stage so it was hard to keep tabs on the shrimp. I didn't notice any more deaths until a recent move. Before moving the tank I removed a lot of the overgrown plants. Once getting it to the new place I only saw 6 shrimp (2 females, 4 male) so it seems there were a few lost between June and August. There was one small shrimp in there as well (seems the only baby who survived).
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My berried female was still doing well and her eggs hatched two days ago. She was active and seemed healthy the next day. Today I noticed her in the corner tipped over and not moving much. I snapped the below photo. I know the colour of the internal organs are meant to be a sign of bacterial infection, but I don't know what to really look for in a CRS. The colour in the second photo below looks odd to me. All limbs and antennae intact.
EDIT: Just checked and the shrimp is dead. Anything I can do to try to determine the cause before I dispose of it?
I am just at a loss at this stage. I feel like a bad shrimp keeper and I don't know what else to do.
Does this look/sound like a bacterial infection to you? What can I do to fix this?
Thanks for your help and let me know if you need any more info!

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Thank you for the reply.
So I get that I will need to start again with fresh shrimp but can those shrimp go into the existing tank once all of the old colony have been removed? Is there any chance that the ellobiopsidae could harbour in any of the tank elements such as substrate and filter for example and therefore be introduced to the new shrimp?

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First off, you want a substrate that buffers the pH down around 6.5 or below.
Second, the RO water or distilled as recommended. If you have soft water, then a cheap RO machine can work, although the replacement cartridges may be the same amount as a new machine. If you have hard water, then I would recommend a more expensive RO unit.
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Sponge filters with an air pump can be used for filtration. It's recommended to get the type that suction to the side of the aquarium.